Shadows and Lies edition by Ronald Watkins Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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When the President’s mistress reveals the existence of a sex tape and demands money for her silence, it falls to the long suffering First Lady to deal with it. Unwilling to trust the Secret Service or any other federal agency, she calls on childhood friend and former lover, Dan Powers, to negotiate the deal. But with bodies quickly falling Powers soon learns nothing is as it appears and that he’s been marked for death. An intimate and scathing look at power politics in Washington D.C., Shadows and Lies is as timely as today’s headlines.
Shadows and Lies edition by Ronald Watkins Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
The First Family is having issues; the First Lady Rebecca Gordon Tufts has received a blackmail note from her husband's mistress demanding a half million dollars in hush money. Not trusting members of the White House staff to deliver the money and keep quiet, she asks an old friend, retired policeman Dan Powers to come to DC to take care of the job as a personal favor.It's rare to find a book where almost every character presented is someone with no redeeming features, but this book manages to turn that trick. The only character the reader can actually cheer for is Dan Powers who ends up being the whipping boy for almost every one else in the story no matter which way he turns.
The story itself is complex with a lot of twists, turns, and surprises with Powers using his experience as a big city detective to follow the clues and sort out these bad guys from the other bad guys. He suffers being shot, beat up, lied to, and betrayed by just about everyone yet he keeps on the case to root out the truth and identify the ultimate culprit amongst a whole cast of culprits.
The real problems with the book are in the execution of the plot and the mechanics of story telling. There are many grammatical and typographical errors in the book which increase in number as the book progresses, as though the proofreader or editor gave up halfway through the job.
Another glaring error is a disconnected plot point that seems to have gotten lost between one draft of the book and the final version regarding an apparently abandoned subplot of a drug problem that Rebecca Tufts had at one time. The drug in question, Librium, was mentioned twice as though the reader should already know the backstory and the character's relationship with it and how it caused another problem to occur, yet there is no such subplot to explain it. An editor should have caught this and corrected the problem either by omitting the references or directing the author to insert an explanation of the references possibly by restoring the original subplot to the book.
The timeframe of the book is also a problem. There are hints in the text that make it seem to take place in a time just after the millennium without specifying the exact year, and yet there are technical points that would tend to indicate that it is not a present-day setting. There are mentions of a few popular personages such as Tom Brokaw and Oprah Winfrey to give it verisimilitude, but there are other details that make a major plot point difficult to believe if the story took place in a time after the year 2000. Information that would be common knowledge by that date and afterward was not known by the main character, and this lack of awareness put him at a disadvantage. I call foul since there is no way an experienced former detective would NOT have been aware of this specific fact and not have taken the necessary precautions to counteract it.
The ending also is unsatisfying and incomplete with several plot resolutions left hanging.
Not recommended.
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Shadows and Lies edition by Ronald Watkins Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
The story was rather trite, kind of like watching some of the television series of the same type. There were grammatical errors, words left out or not correct, showed a lack of proper editing. I wanted to find out who was responsible for the murders, but it was pretty predictable.
Fairly predictable, but had a bit of suspense. Typos were rampant...needs a good editor or better spell-check.
A new hero,a believable plot and a president we can relate too. Obviously there will be a follow up book.
Better than an airplane book. Characters well developed. Not much time wasted on irrelevant sub plots.
Am looking into the authors other books. Highly recommend for a fast, interesting read
This was a very complicated plot I enjoyed the drama and Intregue sad but feel it is something Govts would do to protect themselves
The story was okay, but the editing was terrible. Past tense when present tense was needed, you' re instead of your -I could go on and on. Had a hard time staying with it because of the vulgarity.
Very interesting, lots of twists and turns. Just when you have made up your mind everything changes. I recommend this book highly.
The President's mistress is planning to blackmail him with tapes and correspondence of their illicit affair.
The First Lady hires an old school friend, a retired cop to retrieve the evidence and stop the blackmailer.
The French, Iraqi, Arab and USA agents are trying to get this info for their own use.
This story has many twists and turns with dead bodies piling up and not knowing who to trust.
Plenty of action with the plot left open until the very end. A great read.
The First Family is having issues; the First Lady Rebecca Gordon Tufts has received a blackmail note from her husband's mistress demanding a half million dollars in hush money. Not trusting members of the White House staff to deliver the money and keep quiet, she asks an old friend, retired policeman Dan Powers to come to DC to take care of the job as a personal favor.
It's rare to find a book where almost every character presented is someone with no redeeming features, but this book manages to turn that trick. The only character the reader can actually cheer for is Dan Powers who ends up being the whipping boy for almost every one else in the story no matter which way he turns.
The story itself is complex with a lot of twists, turns, and surprises with Powers using his experience as a big city detective to follow the clues and sort out these bad guys from the other bad guys. He suffers being shot, beat up, lied to, and betrayed by just about everyone yet he keeps on the case to root out the truth and identify the ultimate culprit amongst a whole cast of culprits.
The real problems with the book are in the execution of the plot and the mechanics of story telling. There are many grammatical and typographical errors in the book which increase in number as the book progresses, as though the proofreader or editor gave up halfway through the job.
Another glaring error is a disconnected plot point that seems to have gotten lost between one draft of the book and the final version regarding an apparently abandoned subplot of a drug problem that Rebecca Tufts had at one time. The drug in question, Librium, was mentioned twice as though the reader should already know the backstory and the character's relationship with it and how it caused another problem to occur, yet there is no such subplot to explain it. An editor should have caught this and corrected the problem either by omitting the references or directing the author to insert an explanation of the references possibly by restoring the original subplot to the book.
The timeframe of the book is also a problem. There are hints in the text that make it seem to take place in a time just after the millennium without specifying the exact year, and yet there are technical points that would tend to indicate that it is not a present-day setting. There are mentions of a few popular personages such as Tom Brokaw and Oprah Winfrey to give it verisimilitude, but there are other details that make a major plot point difficult to believe if the story took place in a time after the year 2000. Information that would be common knowledge by that date and afterward was not known by the main character, and this lack of awareness put him at a disadvantage. I call foul since there is no way an experienced former detective would NOT have been aware of this specific fact and not have taken the necessary precautions to counteract it.
The ending also is unsatisfying and incomplete with several plot resolutions left hanging.
Not recommended.
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